Sai Sou Day

Mama bathing Noreen with Pamelo Leaves

Mui Jie cutting Noreen's hair

This is a chinese tradition that I've never heard of, Mui Jie told us that when baby is born for the first month is pantang period very "sou" I cant seem to find this in english. So today is the day where we wash off the pantang and Noreen can go kai kai.

The ritual is very simple, everyone need to bath in pamelo leaves, this include Kiki we ask?

Noreen have her first haircut and we kept her hair in an angpow.

Chicken chop

To my susrprise Mui Jie made Chicken Chop ala carte, looks good, and taste heavenly.

Candid

Noreen's catnap

Noreen catching her cat nap.

When something beautiful comes into our lives, we thank God for the blessing he had given us. Sometimes when coming into my room I see both Noreen and Lita are asleep, I stand at the door entrance looking at both of them and I feel so grateful receiving the blessing from God.

I think as human, sometimes we're too involve in our daily rat race that we;ve seriously missed out on a lot of beautiful things in life, we continue to be so busy improving our lives that we actually failed to see how wonderful ours had already been. Just looking at them at the bedside I know this is success and wealth beyond anything money can buy.

Happiness is the feeling of contentment within our hearts. Where we need not compare with others and getting that auto smile by just thinking of our loved ones. By seeing them in front of our eyes the pride and joy is true ecstasy and when cuddling them both, you know that you've finally came to a place where you can truly call your home and your own family.

Mercury Free Vaccination

I've been doing a little study on vaccination after looking at Noreens baby book schedule and realize she has to take about 15 shots till 2 years old. And I'll say its quite a shocker when I read a conspiracy theory relating vaccination and autism. The main culprit is thiomersal a mercury preservative. In the US, studies had shown that since 1990s more and more vaccine shots are require and at the same time an alarming increase in autism cases tagged behind. This pattern lead some group of people to do further research and they found that vaccine are preserved with mercury which doesnt need scientist to point you the link with mercury and brain damage.

For further studies of the said mercury poison heres the link:

http://www.nationalautismassociation.org/thimerosal.php

Anyway after being really worried I decide to call Pantai Indah and spoke to Ms.Tang, and explained to her my worries and she then help me and did some asking around, she suggest I speak to Mr. Pravin whom I think is the pharmacy in Pantai Indah.

After explaining to him that if he can help me find mercury free vaccine I would send my daughter for all the shots at Pantai Indah. He say he will help me check on my next Hep-B vac shots. After 20 minutes he called me and said he checked with a few pharmaceutical and found out that GlaxoSmithKline do produce mercury free vaccine. The product is GSK Engerix. I thank him so much for being so professional and really helpful and booked my daughters next vaccine shots with only mercury free product.

Thought there is no 100% prove that link mercury vaccines and autism, there is also no 100% prove that cigarettes causes cancer. But if given a choice I think we try to avoid as much as we can. A little research online can help a lot most time. But meantime I hope engerix doesnt use other chemical as preservative like formalin or aluminium hahahaha.

Noreen in better mood

Shes happy when she is full and clean....can't resist posting picture -

This afternoon when I placed Noreen on my lap and cuddle her, she gave me a cheeky smile, the smile melt my heart to the point that tears over flowed my eyes. The powerful effect from such a tiny baby. Her smile makes all the trouble in the world disappear in a blink of an eye. I've never felt this way in my life, I guess this is the feeling everyone had told me about, you'll know how wonderful when you've a baby of your own. I can search through all the words in the dictionary but I can never find the words that accurately express the joy in my heart. Its amazing and truly the greatest gifts from God.

Lita and Noreen

Watching Lita and Noreen makes me feel so happy and contended, I've been through a lot in life, going through multiple hard times and dissapointment sometimes to the extend I question if this life is worth all this. After I came to know Lita and now she had given me Noreen, I sincerely thank God that the journey of my life had came to this phase and I can tell myself that it was really all worth it.

I love both of them and I'm glad that God had not given me up.

10th July

Noreen has been a naughty girl, refusing to sleep alone at night, she wants to sleep beside Lita and she will feel secure and sleep.

3rd day

Mui Jie and Noreen sunbathing

Noreen's skin has a slight yellowish tinge, Mui Jie says this is baby's Jaundice and its pretty common. I've heard and read all about this before Noreen was born, but when its happening to your baby our heart really were in the caution mode. Took Noreen to her paed, and did blood test, reading was 180, which paed told us if 200 she would need to go under photo therapy. told us to sunbath and come back 5 days to retest. Mui Jie told us the remedy is early morning sunbathing. So Noreen's first sunbathing and unfortunately she doesnt enjoy it a bit, she was crying from the beginning until she falls asleep. Poor baby. Mui Jie had her eyes covered to protect against direct sunlight as this would damage her young eyes.

Today is also the day Noreens umblical cord finally falls off, we kept it in an ang pow, I duno why we keep it as I dun think so she wants it when she is older. I guess this is just new baby's syndrome where everything is so precious to us.

She also had her first bath which she does not enjoy every minute of it.

1st Day home

Today Noreen finally came back to her home sweet home, she sleeps most of the time. She will wake up when she is hungry or when she had poo poo. I guess thats what baby's are born to do. We appoint her as our C.O.O (Chief of Orr see Orr niu)

Lucky we had arrange for a confinement lady, otherwise it would be chaotic, we had absolutely no experience and know zero about taking care of baby's. Mui Jie has been in this trade for about 10 years. She is very responsible, very clean and most important very experience. She gave us a lot of advise and the do's and don't. Her cooking is nice and its easier to get along with her. Its not easy suddenly you have to share your life with a stranger even tho for just 28 days.

The hospital Bill came up to RM6,450, I think its reasonable. The nurse and staff are very friendly, the food unfortunately, not nice.

I had splitting headache from the over excitement, came home at 8pm and knock-out at 9pm. Had a good 12 hour sleep and would be back to see my daughter at lunch time.

here are more photos of Noreen:

The 4th of July 2009

Today Noreen Elena Lee was born at Pantai Indah Hospital, she is a beautiful living doll weighting 2.85kg. I was standing right outside the operating room and waiting anxiously to hear her cry. I waited for about 45minutes and I heard her loud cry and I knew it was my baby. The feeling settle and I was more anxious to see her, I met her in a tiny baby cubicle when the nurse wheel her out, I laid eyes on my little princess. The feeling is fantastic, the first thing I asked the nurse was, Boy or Girl? she refuse to answer and say lemme surprise you, she remove the towel and she was a girl.

I followed them to the nursery and they did a simple test and then weight her, gave her the Vitamin K injections. Then when they;'re done I went in and touch my baby for the first time. I was overwhelm and happy tears filled my eyes. I finally met Noreen, after waiting all my life. She was so beautiful, she look like a doll. I was there when she opened her eyes for the first time and I'm glad the first person she saw was me.

I waited in Lita's room and she came out about 1.5 hours later, I'm glad that they;re both ok, it was a suspend but it is over.

3 Days to the 4th of July

We've chosen this day for our baby's birthday. Its just 3 days away and the excitement is building up momentum. Just cant believe I'll be a father, its seem so unreal. Lita has opt for Caesarian and we'll have to check in on Sat morning 7am.

This will be the day that I get to meet my baby, the feeling is like setting up a meeting with a long long time cyber friend. You wonder how she look like, you wonder how she react, its like getting to a another person you know you're very close to but surprisingly you had never met in your life. The feeling is just plain weird.

The most important thing now is she gets to be a healthy baby, nothing else matters anymore to me. I offer my prayer to our Lord Jesus Christ that everything will be fine.

Our Father who art in Heaven

Hallowed be thy name

Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done

On earth as it is in Heaven

Give us this day our daily bread

And forgive us our sins

As we forgive others who sin against us

Do not lead us into temptations

But delivery from evil.